Saturday, 19 July 2008

They are each for six random facts - which makes eighteen andEsther has already posted six on her blog from one she got ages ago.

I've been taking a look around - there's a log jam. Thinking of six interesting facts is hard enough. (Eighteen.) Finding six (eighteen) people to pass the tag on to is . . . well, it's difficult.

So . . . I'm going to be very brave and start a new one. (I asked Esther about it and she says I can do whatever I like, she's too busy thinking about her missing underwear and evading the police to bother.)

So . . . it will be called 'The Esther Montgomery Prize' (my decision) 'For a Particular Picture' and the 'Prize' (which isn't really a 'prize') is to put Esther's little nosegay of blue flowers in your sidebar (or somewhere).

So . . . instead of finding eighteen interesting (boring if you are me) facts - I will start the ball rolling with eighteen memorable pictures.

(The nice thing about this is that I can delve back to pictures I keep looking at 'in my mind's eye'. They don't have to be current.)

Oh! I went onto another page without realising it so I've got 24. Never mind - a bonus!

Oh! Another 'Oh!' '. I've made a right hash up of this.

Having spent ages choosing the photos for the list - I can't make links to the right places (only to the blog or to a blown up picture). I'll contact the blog owners and ask if I can reproduce their pictures here (with links to their blogs). If they say 'yes', then the images will gradually appear.

Typing on the Void - Rounders Match - 13th May 2008 . . . . (This isn't actually the picture I was thinking of even though it is of the rounders match. Pete R. Free who owns the blog has asked me to use this one instsead because the people who are in the one I was rembering haven't been asked about it being put here - though I suppose it is a memorable photo in the sense that it is on the slant and you can't see anything in it!)Earth, Wind and Water - Underwater Turtle - 15th May 2008

Veg Monkey and The Mrs - Raised Beds - 28th May 2008Faire Garden - Thoughtful Grandson By Pond - 22nd April 2008 . Well, that should get things off to a good start but, I suggest, if any of these blog-owners would like to pass on the 'prize' perhaps choosing three 'Particular Pictures' would be a manageable number and, hopefully, the recipients will be pleased with the nosegay which is the Esther Montgomery Memorial 'Prize' For a Particularly Memorable Picture.

23 comments:

Hi Lucy, I love your photographs. I have never seen anything quite like them before. For example, I enjoyed double clicking on the vertical image shown here. Not only is the format unique, but there is so much to see up close. along with what looks like wild fennel is all kinds of differnt plants, grass: a whole world when seen up close.It reminds me when I was a child and was disovering the world. You have inspired me to try something new and to look at the world in a new way.Best Regards,Philip

Oh wow, Philip, what a compliment! And I'm still here, trying to make the layout work properly and re-establish the links which have gone etc. etc. and get rid of the gigantic spaces which insist on settling in so, whatever you saw just now was still pretty raw.

It's really encouraging. I'm sitting here all happy now.

Yours is one of the photos I'm hoping to include. I'll be in touch once I've got the links to the blogs in place.

Hi Lucy, you are a very clever girl indeed. The Esther award is lovely and I have put it on my sidebar proudly with a link to this post, if that is okay. You are most welcome to use that photo with the link and credit. I am honored.Frances

Thank-you Lucy.Personally I think tonight's blog entry will be more memorable for photos, at least for our visitors to Lytes - but you need the whole series to work out why!Thanks again for your link and award and very best blogging wishes.Pete

Lucy!Yes, please show the "Barrow Park."I took this photo in an outrageous place...an artist's true oasis organic garden near Joshua Tree National Park. It is awe-inspiring big country. Wild flowers amongst crazy rocks. Very "Picnic at Hanging Rock " kind of place: spiritual and engmatic.Now, your neighbor Esther drew a painting of this. It is most assuradly the kind of place where Martians would be at home.It would seem that that the mother ship is on speaking terms with the denizens of the desert here.It is just that kind of place.I have to say, I was inordinately proud when my friend and your neighbor created the Barrow Park Garden. She just seemed to "get it" even though she is washing socks with aquilegia seeds right now and bobbing up and down in the hedgerows evading the constabulary.Very truly yours,Philip

Lucy, if you enjoy photographs that much... have you seen the one at this url, the second photo. The second photo of a dragonfly on daylily, drops of water, shadows, and reflections in the water. I think you would enjoy it. DRAGONFLY

First, as weird as this is: Don't scare me like that again! How did you scare me? I saw the word Memorial next to Esther's name and I was in tears and my stomach was lurching-- I thought something had happened. I'm okay now though. I guess that's what I get for not keeping up during my cold months with everyone's blogs. Bad me. I am so glad Esther is fine though.

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